Combination tool



Aug. 26 1924. 1,506,102

.vvuss COMBINATION T001;

'Filed March 6, 1922 Mai,

' INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 26, 1924.

UNITED STATES ARTHUR \VISE, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

COMBINATION TOOL.

Application filed March a, 1922.

T 0 all 10:71am 2'2. may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR W'rsn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and State of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Tools, of which the following is a specification.

My invent-ion relates to combination tools, and has for its object to provide a tool having a tack and nail drawer, with a groove cleaner and gasket remover adjacent the tack drawer and adapted to the use of driving the removed tack or nail into wood.

A further object is to provide on the opposite end of the tool a telescoping'journal hook with which a railway car inspector may determine the condition of the journals of car wheels.

These objects I accomplish with the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which similar letters and numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views, and as described in the specification forming a part of this application and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings in which I have shown a substantial embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of the tool showing the flat face of the tack remover; Fig. 2 is another plan view looking at the edge of the tack remover and side edge of the gasket remover, parts cut away; Fig. 3 is a view showing the bottom of the tack remover; Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the tool extended; Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are details in elevation of the different sect-ions of the journal inspecting hook; Fig. 8 is a detail in plan of the connecting thimble; and Fig. 9 is a plan view of the sleeve bushmg.

A portion of the work of a railway car inspector is the inspection of the air hose line and journal portion of the wheels of the cars, and so far as known to me, he is not provided with any specially designed tool to do said work, and after said inspec tion his duties are to indicate, what repairs are needed on said cars before they are again loaded. These reports are shown by means of small pieces of cardboard which he fastens on the side of the car with small nails or tacks, and particularly in the sides of freight cars which have been used he will find enough tacks sticking in the boards Serial N0. 541,287.

that when removed may be again used to fasten the card which he desires placed upon said car. One implement provided in the present invention is the tack remover, which when used in combination with another im plement adjacent thereto, will enable him to remove one card and replace with another, using the removed tacks.

The present invention consists of a handle A, which may be made of any suitable material, and in one end of which is secured the tack remover l, which is a wedgeshaped bifurcated steel blade having a spindle or shank 1 that is firmly held in the handle A by the ferrule 3 with the pin 1 which is passed through the said ferrule 3 and shank 1. At the rear side of said tack remover, and covering the slot therein, is the gasket remover known and used as a recess cleaner 2, which is a combined implement having a tapered and angled blade shown at 2 with a shank portion that is firmly held in said ferrule 3 by the said pin 1 A portion of the gasket remover which is contiguous to the bifurcated portion of the tack remover is spaced at an incline from said bifurcated portion of the tack remover. The said handle A is centrally and longitudinally bored, as at 5, and internally threaded as at 15, and within said bore 5 is carried the telescoped and jointed journal hook B which is made up of the members 7, 8, 9 and 10. Within the threads 15 is screwed the bushing 6, which bushing has a tapered interior and in which the said member 7 is slidably carried. A slot 6 is cut in the end of said bushing 6 by which the bushing may be turned in said threads 15. One end portion of said memher 7 is outwardly tapered to fit closely within the tapered bore of said bushing 6. The other end portion of said member 7 is externally threaded and slotted, as at 7 An internally threaded sleeve nut 8 is screwed on the said threaded portion 7 of the member 7 to hold the enlarged end of another spindle member 9. The body of said member 9 is slidable within the member 7, and the other end portion is tapered inwardly to engage the flared end of the hook member 10, and in assembling the tool the said member 10 is inserted within the member 9 before the hook 11 is formed. lVhen the journal-hook B is telescoped within the said handle A, a cap-screw 4 is screwed on the end of said handle, which cap is removed when the operator wishes to use the journal-hook B. The operation of the invention is as follows The track remover 1 and the gasket remover 2 are both magnetized and when a tack is pulled out of the old card it is retained in the slot in said tack remover, and may be driven again to fasten an inspectors card on the car, by sticking the tack through the new card and into the side of the car far enough to overcome the magnetic force when Withdrawing the device from around the old tack. The tack is then fully driven by using the entire tool as a hammer, striking the tack with the heavy or plane surface 1 of the tack remover. move a rubber gasket from the air hose connection the hook member 2 is inserted between the gasket and the metal union, and then using the tool as a lever the gasket may be pried out of its socket. If any foreign matter should be found in the gasket recess the said hook 2 is used to clean out the recess. When my tool is to be used to inspect the journal of a car wheel the cap-screw 4 is removed and the journal inspecting member B is extended by pulling outwardly on the journal-hook 11 to extend the tool as lVhen using my tool to re its uses, I desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim V V 1. The combination tool comprising a handle having a cap screwed on one end and a ferrule on the other end, a bifurcatedtack remover secured on said handle through said ferrule, a. gasket remover with a portion thereof spaced from said tack remover at an incline and fastened in said tlguous to the tack remover. I

2. A combmation tool comprising a handle, a bifurcated tack remover secured in one end of sald handle, and a gasket remover sehandle concured in the same end of said handle and with a portion thereof inclined from the tack remover. I

In testlmony whereof I have, affixed my signature.

ARTHUR WISE. 

